BOARDWATCH

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, October 7, 1997

-- A resolution opposing the proposed settlement with tobacco companies now being considered by President Clinton and Congress. Passed unanimously. -- The acceptance of $10 million in a settlement from a suit in which the city and others sued R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The city's share will be $1.5 million for anti- tobacco education, enforcement and ad campaigns. The city also will share in $1 million to reimburse it for legal expenses. Unanimous. -- Final, unanimous approval given to Supervisor Gavin Newsom's plan to give some restaurants the right to apply for state permits to sell alcoholic beverages at sidewalk tables. -- On an 8-to-3 vote, approved Sprint-Spectrum's plan to erect antennas at 1501 Lincoln Way, at 16th Avenue. Supervisors Sue Bierman, Tom Ammiano and Jose Medina voted no.

Introduced:

-- Supervisor Leslie Katz proposed allowing the Alexander Hamilton Post of the American Legion to use the city's official seal on a monument for the late Supervisor Harvey Milk that it plans for Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. -- Medina urged the National Park Service to open the Fort Mason rail tunnel, which runs from Laguna Street to Van Ness Avenue, as a bicycle path. -- Supervisor Mabel Teng called on the Department of Parking and Traffic to begin a citywide pedestrian safety campaign.

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Hearings called for: -- Supervisor Michael Yaki wants to hear testimony on plans for the now-shuttered Old Mint and on the War Memorial Veterans Building, which will lose the mayor and the supervisors as tenants after City Hall renovation is finished. -- Ammiano plans hearing on the Stonestown Mall expansion plan and on his idea for a temporary moratorium on the erection of more telecommunications antennas in the city. -- Medina requested a hearing on the idea of a bike lane on Valencia Street, an idea the Department of Parking and Traffic has studied and rejected in the past. -- Newsom wants hearings on the city's heroin epidemic and on attacks against parking control officers.

The sky is falling:

"None of us wants to be showered with plutonium or worse yet with rhetoric from the federal government that there is no danger," Ammiano said in introducing a resolution asking NASA to cancel the Cassini mission to Saturn.